Stills via Endless on Apple Music
Last night, Frank Ocean released a 45-minute visual album on Apple Music called Endless. It shows him building a spiral staircase, and in the background there’s an 18-track album. Both visually and musically, it’s quite an undertaking, and it involved a huge team beyond Frank himself, including filmmaker Francisco Soriano as director of photography and a cast of musicians like Jazmine Sullivan, Sampha, Alex G, James Blake, and Arca. The full list of credits scrolls by at the end of the video, along with some cool Endless graphics. Since they’re kind of hard to read, and we are masochists, we’ve written the whole thing out for you below.
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Director: Frank Ocean
Director of Photography: Francisco Soriano
Production Designer: Thomas Mastorakos
Producer: Wendi Morris
Wardrobe: Rita Zebdi
Wardrobe Assistant: Henri Helander
Art Department: Paper Mache Monkey
Set Construction: TMG
VFX: Grant Lau
Colorist: Brandon Chavez
Sound Mixer: Caleb Laven
1st AC: Keith Ferreira
Editor: Francisco Soriano
Assistant Editor/ DIT: Taj Francois
Sound Designer: Maarten Hofmeijer, Brent Kiser
“Device Control” (W. Tilmans)
Synthesizers: Tim Knapp and Kyle Combs
Drum Programming: Tim Knapp and Kyle Combs
Drums: Rosie Slater
Recorded at Wolfgang’s Home. Grafica Maiadouro and Studio G, Brooklyn
“Alabama” (F. Ocean)
Piano: Frank Ocean
Additional Vocals: Sampha and Jazmine Sullivan
Recorded at The Mercer Hotel and Capitol Studios
“U-N-I-T-Y” (F. Ocean)
Piano: Christophe Chassol
Recorded at Capitol Studios
“Commes Des Garcons” (F. Ocean)
Synthesizers: Buddy Ross
Drum Programming: Troy Moka and Joe Thornalley
Bass: Ben Reed
Additional Vocals: Rita Zebdi
Recorded at MSR & Capitol Studios
“Wither” (F. Ocean)
Guitars: Alex G.
Background Vocals: Jazmine Sullivan
Bass: Ben Reed
Piano: Frank Ocean
Recorded at Mercer Hotel
“In Here Somewhere” (F. Ocean, T. Noka, J. Thornalley)
Guitars: Spaceman
Synthesizers: Troy Moka
Drum Programming: Troy Noka and Joe Thornalley
Additional Programming: Frank Ocean
Recorded at MSR & Capitol Studios
“Sideways” (F. Ocean)
Synthesizers: Buddy Ross
Drum Programming: Nolife and Joe Thornalley
Bass: Ben Reed
Recorded at Mercer Hotel, Capitol Studios and MSR Studios
“Deathwish (ASR)” (F. Ocean, T. Noka, J. Thornalley)
Guitars: Spaceman
Programming: Troy Noka and Joe Thornalley
Additional Programming: Frank Ocean
Recorded at MSR & Mercer Hotel
“Rushes To” (F. Ocean, T. Noka, J. Thornalley, M. Uzowuru)
Guitars: Frank Ocean
Programming: Troy Noka, Joe Thornalley and Michael Uzowuru
Recorded at Capitol Studio and MSR Studios
“At Your Best (You Are Love)” (E.Isley, C.Jasper, R.Isley, O.Isley, R. isley)
String Orchestration: Jonny Greenwood
Orchestra Credits: London Contemporary
Orchestra Engineer: Graeme Stewart
Piano: Om’ Mas Keith
Synthesizers: James Blake
Cover of the Isley Brothers song ‘At Your Best (You Are Love)’
Cover Recorded at Abbey Road and East West Studios
“Mine” (F.Ocean)
Programming: Arca
Recorded at Abbey Road
AMBIENCE 001: “In A Certain Way”
AMBIENCE 002: “Honeybaby”
“Hublots” (F. Ocean)
Piano: Frank Ocean
Vocals: Jazmine Sullivan
“Slide On Me” (F. Ocean)
Guitars: Alex G.
Bass: Joe Thornalley
Drum Programming: Joe Thornalley
Synthesizers: Buddy Ross
Additional Programming: Sebastian
Recorded at Capitol Studios and MSR
“Florida” (F. Ocean)
Bass: Buddy Ross
Recorded at Conway Studios and Setai Studios
“Rushes” (F. Ocean)
Guitars: Alex G. and Spaceman
Backing Vocals: Jazmine Sullivan
Bass: Ben Reed
Programming: Sebastian
Recorded at Capitol Studios and Mercer Hotel
“Higgs” (F.Ocean)
Guitars: Alex G. and Austin Hollows
Programming: Sebastian
Recorded at Hotel Bel-Air and Capitol Studios
Executive Producer: Frank Ocean
Production: Frank Ocean, Joe Thornalley, Troy Noka, Michael Uzowuru
Recording Engineer: Caleb Laven
Mix Engineer: Tom Elmhirst, Noah Goldstein
Assistant Mix Engineer: Joe Visciano
Mastering: Mike Dean
Creative Direction: Frank Ocean, Thomas Mastorakos
Graphic Design: Michel Egger, Kevin McCaughey
Photography: Thomas Mastorakos
Management: Three Six Zero
Label: Def Jam
A&R: Caius Pawson
Legal: King, Holmes, Paterno and Soriano, LLP
London Contemporary Orchestra
Conductor: Robert Ames
First Violins: Daniel Pioro, Sophie Lockett, Cerys Jones, Francesca Barritt, Laura Virtanen, Charis Jenson, Zara Benyounes, Beatrice Philips, Yuka Matsumoto
Second Violins: Galya Bisengalieva, Eboisa-Fleur Thom, Patrick Savage, Hannah Dawson, Jeremy Isaac, Gillon Cameron, Alessandro Ruisi, Emily Holland, Anna Ovsyanikova
Violas: Max Baillie, Ian Anderson, Matthew Kettle, Stephanie Edmundson, Asher Zaccardelli, Tetsuumi Nagata
Double Basses: Dave Brown, Billy Cole, Roger Linley, James Bersey
Music Preparation: Hugh Brunt, Daisy Chute
Cellos: Oliver Coates, Claire O’Connell, Brian O’Kane, Zoë Martlew, Kwesi Edman, Reinoud Ford
Special Thanks to: Tom Sachs, Nate and Grady
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